Lower Tweed Transportation Study

Part of this study involved an examination of the potential for Tweed Shire to levy contributions on developers for the cost of providing distributor roads.

A first principles approach considered the range of issues associated with creating such a concept, including:

• differential versus average cost recovery,
• issues relating to rates and taxes,
• strategic versus disaggregate analysis, and
• state and federal government road funding.

In addition, a number of technical matters were addressed which included:

• council committed development,
• level of service standards,
• network design flow conditions,
• capital, maintenance, operating and rehabilitation costs,
• function costs,
• commercial vehicles, and
• allocation of costs to residential and commercial development.

From these matters a policy position was developed for the Shire that was then translated into a contributions assessment process which was subsequently implemented.